Cultural · Kattankudy · Eastern
Three Floors of Muslim Heritage
Kattankudy Heritage Museum — 5 km south of Batticaloa
THE MUSEUM FACADEPhoto by Amazirastro on Wikimedia CommonsClosed Fridays. The town carries heavy history: in August 1990 more than 147 men and boys were killed at prayer in its mosques.
A three-storey museum on A.J.A. Road in Kattankudy, opened in April 2015 and run by the Department of Archaeology, devoted to the Islamic heritage of the east-coast Muslims and the Arab traders who settled here. Old weapons, ceramics, household objects and life-size clay models of community events fill the floors.
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7.6771° N, 81.7307° EOSM
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